Rumors this morning about an independent conservative candidate.
Romney and a whole parade of others have refused the role, urged upon them by Bill Kristol.
David French is a well-known conservative writer at The National Review with zero executive experience who has never held any public office.
That equates to a complete no-name, nobody candidate for the presidency.
The rumors are a trial balloon.
He will decide whether to run in the next couple of days.
Who Is David French and Is He Running For President?
A spokesperson this morning said he does not want to be a spoiler, a "Ralph Nader of the right."
No problem.
To be a spoiler he would have to get votes.
If this write-up by Steve M. is a fair indication, French is a deep-dyed cultural reactionary who wants to undo the sexual revolution all the way back to Griswold, the decision in which the liberal fiction of a constitutional right to privacy was first embedded in America law by William O. Douglas, for the immediate and long-range purpose of disallowing state regulation of private, consensual sexual conduct.
In that particular case the issue was a Connecticut state law prohibiting doctors from advising patients on the use of contraceptives.
He and other such conservatives to whom he would appeal are certainly not going to vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson.
This would be the Rod Dreher vote, and the thing is that Dreher knows perhaps better than any other conservative just how completely dead in the Western World the Christian sexual ethos really is.
The percentage of US voters who, fully informed, would actually support a restoration of full-scale, pre-Griswold American clericalism has got to be in the lower single digits.
A quick lesson in why French is not on board for Trump.
15 Reasons Trump Is a Liberal — and a Lunatic Conspiracy Theorist
Update, 6/6/16. MSNBC this morning says David French says he won't run, after all.
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